Financial Shakeup this weekend

[catchacab]

Wellardmac wrote:

There are a number of things that are barriers to this - not insurmountable, but barriers regardless.

i) The founding fathers believed that the electorate were stupid and not to be trusted to elect their own government,

I agree!

I stated it earlier in this thread, and here it is again. If one can't manage their own affairs why should they be permitted to take action that will affect others (voting). I believe that many citizens do not have the capacity to make an intelligent informed decision on who should govern. The "right" to vote, should not be a "right", but a privilege that is earned based on interest in government, knowledge of history and current affairs, and general intellect. Just because you were born here doesn't mean that you should be able to vote. Many immigrants have a better understanding and knowledge of history, our government and current events than those who were born here. To be eligible to vote one should have to take and pass a test periodically.

Although elected by a majority of voters, our government does not represent, respect or care for those who elected them, nor do they represent the average American. The true constituents that our government is responsible to is special interests, which includes the well funded lobbyists and big business. We are truly enduring "taxation without representation" If our founding fathers were here today, they would probably advocate Revolution. The amazing thing is that a country that was founded by a Revolution, has outlawed it.

A way to show the elected officials how upset the public is with them, is to vote against the current political party occupying the position. For example: Vote Democratic for President, but if your Representative is Democratic, then vote Republican. If everyone who was unhappy with government did this, almost every Representative would be a freshman in the new Congress, almost 1/3 of the Senators would be freshman too. If they didn't get the hint, after one election cycle, in 2 years we could vote out an entire House of Rep, and another 1/3 of the Senate. One should do this for local and state wide races too.

A grass root campaign on "VOTE THE BUMS OUT!" could be easily done by emailing your friends and have them email their friends, etc.... A website could be started, the correct filings done, and funds could be raised to have advertising for "VOTE THE BUMS OUT!"

This not be an organization supporting any political party, but an organization helping to change the United State's Government and our country for the better.

I have to go now, the Secret Service, ATF, and FBI are knocking down my door right now (just kidding).